Good post. It will be interesting to see how this first year shakes out.

Durant was soft in college. I saw him play enough to know that he avoids contact like the plague. Some people like physical contact others don't. Durant doesn't like physical contact. No hogwash about it.

Thanks for commenting on my post. Have a nice day and enjoy the Pistons game today.

is there any way we can watch these games? i see the pistons are playing at 6 tonight

NBA.com : Summer League 2007

Sign up and wait until they post the webcast link later on.

Good job Cloud.

I've got a few PMs about where to post NBA Summer League and where to post Pistons Summer League.

I'm moving this thread to the NBA Summer League to the NBA Stuff forum because we should have a lot of BBSC posts here for discussing the Pistons SL and games in the Pistons General Discussion forum.

I realize it's not an elegant solution, but it is somewhat of a solution without sorting through dozens of responses that span lots of topics.

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By avoiding contact Durant has/will develope better court vision and footwork. His game isn't power.
If you bump into Oden you might find yourself displaced 2 to 3 ft. away from where you were. His game is power.

First side line report from your roving PF reporter

Me and the wife rolled into Vegas about 2:30PM yesterday with the temps hitting 110 degrees. Luckily for us the AC was working in COX Pavilion as we sat down at the at the beginning of the second quarter of the Mavs-Sonic games. The early crowd of curious onlookers were there to see Mr. Durant and based on my observations, he is long way from winning rookie of the month in November. Yeah he was the high scorer for the game, but 18 pts on 17 FGA reminds me of Kobe's early days.. As far as playing defense abd banging, it was almost non existent for the number 2 overall pick. It was almost as if the Sonic braintrust said to avoid contact to avoid injury as Durants boney legs and frame initially looked under nourished in the NBA world. On most defensive sequences he stood on the outside watching his fellow players bang for rebounds.

#5 pick Jeff Green played tentively but allowed the focus to be on Durrant. The Sonics also had Johan Petro, Julius Hodge and former Detroit Mercy player Jermaine "I can't sing" Jackson there to hone their skills. The Mavs Maurice Ager, was clearly the crowd pleaser during this game as the former Spartan star had a series of dazzling dunks scoring 17 points and was the only player to have an autograph table set up after the game for the fans to meet him and get signatures. The Mavs first pick in the draft, Nick Fazekas, (#34 overall) had a terrible game shooting wise (1-7) and his parents who were sitting directly behind us were groaning on every miss.


I will provide highlights of the next two games we saw on the next post.

Good work Dre.
Hopefully you, Low and myself can hookup at one of the games and start a Piston uprising. I got first dubs on a picture with CB if he shows up.

It was good work and thank you LA Dre very much. We all appreciate you taking the time to post your observations. Maybe you can a job as a freelance Piston writer for the DetNews on-line edition and replace McCosky. I see that as a big improvement.


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But don't LA Dre's comments about Durant support mine and go against yours? Just wondering.